Indexing government scandals one at a time
Ratings agency, S&P Global Ratings, has revised Ghana’s rating from B-/B to CCC+/C, putting the country’s creditworthiness into junk status. It also reviewed the country’s economic outlook to ne...
Aug. 8, 2022
Ghana is heading for its smallest cocoa crop in 12 years after drought withered pods and illegal gold miners damaged plantations, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Preliminary da...
July 30, 2022
Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwah, says a review of the Free Senior High School Policy is underway. This exercise, he reveals is geared at determi...
July 22, 2022
A Bloomberg study has ranked Ghana 2nd among countries with the highest debt default risk in 2022. The country closely follows El Salvador (ranked number one) in the Sovereign Debt Vulnerability...
July 19, 2022
Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has authorized Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta to commence formal engagements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to support the country’s e...
July 6, 2022
Senior High Schools under the free SHS programme have threatened to shut down and students sent home if the food supply situation does not improve. This is a result of the poor food supply situa...
May 9, 2022
A sit-down strike by commercial drivers across the country has left millions of Ghanaians stranded at various bus terminals. The nationwide strike is to protest the high cost of fuel prices in the ...
Dec. 6, 2021
Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu has admitted he did not do due diligence before contracting with the private office of one Emirati Sheikh, H.H Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum for 3.4 million d...
July 19, 2021
President Akufo-Addo has stated without equivocation that teaching does not make rich. According to him, teaching is a sacrificial service one renders not expecting to rake in much money to become ...
July 12, 2021
Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has revealed Secretary to the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo unilaterally wrote the letter cutting down budget estimates for the judiciary and legislature. ...
March 25, 2021
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting that Ghana’s fiscal deficit will reach 16.4 per cent of GDP this year, the largest in the country’s history. The Fund’s bigger projection, whi...
Oct. 26, 2020
The IMF has listed Ghana in the Category of the Highly Indebted Countries on its website. The International Monetary Fund is forecasting a worrying 76.7% of debt-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio...
Oct. 22, 2020
Ghana’s Embassy in Belgium has been directed to close all its four accounts with its bankers, the ING Bank latest by November 12, 2020. The order from ING Bank means the Embassy has until the gi...
Oct. 5, 2020
Ghana has taken on more debts in the past three-and-a-half years than it had done in 59 years. The spike in borrowings in recent times has caused the national debt stock to hit a grim milestone of ...
Aug. 25, 2020
Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya East Constituency Hawa Koomson has admitted to firing a gun at a voters’ registration centre in the constituency. According to the Special Development In...
July 20, 2020